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SSPP power suggestion...
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lugnet.technic
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Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:48:00 GMT
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Hi!
I'm still thinking about Ross's way cool power source in his Single
Set Power Puller (
http://www.arnesson.nu/lotek/challenge/sspp_scores.html ) and I got a
crazy (?) thought,
How much power can you get from making a lever-powered creation?
If you connected a tall lever-thingie to the drive axle and put some
weight on the lever it would be forced down by the all-mighty gravity
and thus forcing the drive axle into a "snap or spin" situation... I
see a trike 8466 with the fourth wheel as weight in my head...
This way almost every set could make it through the rules... Yikes.
I must try this later in the week (when I might find the time to do
so)...
/Tobbe
http://www.arnesson.nu/lotek/
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| (...) All you really need the wheels for is friction to stop the entire thing slipping, so you don't really need a "vehicle" at all! Just a static base with your lever! The rules don't specify that it actuall has to be moveable! BTW, there's a fair (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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